Genius Quotes - Page 49

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

It is for truth that God created genius.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

The unrecognized genius of our time.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.